By John Erath Earlier this year, for the first time since the Cold War, it was announced that the total number of nuclear weapons in the world rose in 2022. Largely, the reason for the increase was China’s rapid construction of additional weapons. Although the United States and Russia are undergoing modernizations of their nuclear […]
Fact Sheet: The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute
In 1969, long-simmering Sino-Soviet tensions boiled over into direct military confrontation along the Ussuri River. The Ussuri served as an official border boundary between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and it had been a point of Chinese contention that the Soviet Union had forced China to consign Chinese […]
Drivers of China’s nuclear build-up
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with The Democracy Forum in a webinar about the reasons behind China’s nuclear buildup. Watch here.
China’s current nuclear expansion underlines quest for status, says UK forum
Senior Policy Director John Erath was quoted in ANI about the reasons behind the Chinese nuclear buildup. “The risk is real, and mounting. We use the phrase ‘Great power competition’ about China and the West,” said John Erath, senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. This is descriptive but not definitional, […]
Blinken Opens Dialogue with Xi
by Matthew Teasdale Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in June to shore up relations with China and, hopefully, move toward dialogue and away from confrontation in the Indo-Pacific. Following a dual track strategy, Blinken paired words of cooperation and the possibility of a Biden-Xi summit with a slew of […]
